Treatment needed to keep Rx abuse from leading to heroin

5:30 AM,
May 18, 2013

Written by

Russ Zimmer
CentralOhio.com

The pull of opiates - both legal and illegal - is so strong that Orman Hall, director of the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, predicts that, within a couple of years, there will be more Ohioans in addiction treatment for heroin and prescription painkillers than for alcohol.

"Close your eyes," Hall instructed a room full of behavioral health professionals at a symposium Friday in Newark. "Imagine that you have won the Ohio lottery - $100 million. You take $50 million and you put in the bank and you are assured that you and everyone you love are completely taken care of for the ...